YWHP (Young Women's Housing Project - sexual abuse support service)

Summary
YWHP is a specialist support project that provides therapeutic support and safe, supported accommodation for young women (aged between 16 and 25 years) and their children who have been affected by/or who are vulnerable to abuse, incl. sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and domestic violence.

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Inclusion Information

We have one flat with wheelchair access and will make reasonable adjustments to provide for the individual needs of each young woman.

Supports special needs and disabilities

Yes

Special needs and disabilities experience

Social, emotional and mental health needs

Able to accommodate other cultures/ethnicities

Yes

Additional culture/ethnicity information

We will, where practically possible, tailor our support to the individual cultural needs of each young woman. We provide access to interpreters as required.

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Referral required

Yes

Referral Details

Please phone for advice and assistance from a specialist assessor on how to make a referral.

We cannot provide direct access.

Facilities

Secure setting

Notes

A Safe Place to Live

YWHP provides accommodation and housing support to establish a safe and secure home, providing the crucial foundation for recovery. Several types of accommodation are available:

Shared safe house

Self-contained single flats and houses for young women with children

When clients are ready to move on, we help with resettlement and offer follow on support to ensure they are managing their new home successfully

YWHP also offers an outreach service; if a young woman already has somewhere safe to live, but would benefit from our specialist therapeutic support services

Therapeutic support and practical help

YWHP provides person centered, holistic support, based on individual needs. Together with specialist support workers, clients develop their support to enable them to achieve their personal goals, alongside therapeutic interventions and activities.

"Protect Yourself" - Groups and one to one sessions for girls and young women; including "Escape the Trap" Teenage Relationship Abuse Programme

Offering a flexible package of interventions, advice and guidance; Protect Yourself focusses on identifying and building personal strengths to develop and reinforce resilience. Enabling young women to get back on their feet despite adversity, so they can deal with and recover from challenges they face in their lives; being able to protect themselves, live independently and safely without fear.

Escape the Trap programme is designed to support young people to learn about teenage relationship abuse and how it can effect you; it covers, expectations of relaitonships, relationhips that make you feel bad, things partners may say that make you feel bad, how peer behaviour might impact on how you feel about yourself, beliefs about those who behave badly in relationships, social media and how it can be used to abuse, how being treated with respect might be experienced, what a happy and equal relationship might be like.

Parents As First Teachers” - Groups and one to one sessions for young women and their children

YWHP PAFT is a successful research and evidence based parenting support programme for "at risk families".

Flexible and personalised support helps each child to reach age-related expectations, potential and developmental milestones.

Parents are enabled to protect their children and give them the best possible start in life. YWHP PAFT specialist workers are child-focussed to ensure effective engagement; whilst helping parents to feel supported, be less isolated, be better informed, experience a positive relationship with their child, and be more confident to engage with the universal social-welfare and health services.

Creative Movement Therapy

Creative Movement Therapy (CMT) is open to all YWHP clients & uses movement as a way of expressing yourself and working out personal issues and difficulties. It is confidential, safe & non judgemental. Creative Movement Therapy can be very effective in treating a range of mental health issues suc as depression, eating disorders and self harming.

Person Centred Counselling

Person Centred Counselling (PCC) is available to all YWHP clients. It is client-led, giving the client control over what is discussed in the therapy session ina safe & confidential environment. Key principles of PCC are that the therapist employs an empathetic and non-judgemental apporach. Person-centred therapy can be very effective in treating a range of mental health issues suc as depression, eating disorders and self harming.

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